Re: Binary packages (again)

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Luca Sironi <luca%sironi.tk@localhost> wrote:
> Latest release of netbsd is netbsd 5.1.2
> Shouldn't be at least a couple of folder
>
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.1.2
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.1.2
>
> for the major architectures?

The third number of a NetBSD version (2 in 5.1.2) is for security fixes only.
Security fixes don't introduce any changes in system ABI.
So, amd64/5.1 symlink which point to amd64/5.1_2012Q1 is actually
for any 5.1.* releases. As others already said, packages for i386/5.1
are missing.

> Shouldn't be as simple as doing pkg_add 'package' in order to have
> 'package' fetched and installed?

Do you mean without setting PKG_PATH variable?